Method and User Equipment for Transmitting Feedback Information

ABSTRACT

A method for transmitting feedback information and a user equipment are disclosed in the present document, wherein, one method includes: a User Equipment (UE) performing time domain extension on feedback information within one subframe; and mapping respectively data which go through the time domain extension and demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension to multiple uplink Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within the subframe, and transmitting the data which go through the time domain extension and the demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension in the same frequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing; wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physical resource blocks in the frequency domain, and n is a positive integer.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to the field of mobile radiocommunication, and particularly, to a method for transmitting feedbackinformation and a user equipment.

BACKGROUND OF THE RELATED ART

Radio frames in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system include a framestructure of Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode and a frame structureof Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode. As shown in FIG. 1, in the framestructure of the FDD mode, one 10 ms radio frame consists of 20 slotsnumbered as 0˜19 and with length of 0.5 ms, slots 2i and 2i+1 constitutea subframe i with length of 1 ms (wherein, 0≦i≦9). As shown in FIG. 2,in the frame structure of the TDD mode, one 10 ms radio frame consistsof 2 half frames with length of 5 ms, 5 subframes with length of 1 msare included in one half frame, and the subframe i is defined as acombination of two slots 2i and 2i+1 with length of 0.5 ms (wherein,0≦i≦9).

In the above two frame structures, when a Normal Cyclic Prefix (NormalCP) is used, 7 symbols with length of 66.7 us are contained in one slot,wherein the CP length of the first symbol is 5.21 us, and the CP lengthof each of the rest 6 symbols is 4.69 us; and when an Extended CyclicPrefix (Extended CP) is used, 6 symbols are contained in one slot, andthe CP length of each symbol is 16.67 us.

Uplink-downlink configurations supported by each subframe are as shownin Table 1. Wherein, D represents a subframe exclusively used for thedownlink transmission, U represents a subframe exclusively used for theuplink transmission, and S represents a special subframe used for 3domains: Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), Guard Period (GP) and UplinkPilot Time Slot (UpPTS).

TABLE 1 A schematic table of uplink-downlink configurations supported byeach subframe Downlink-uplink Uplink-downlink switchover point Subframenumber # configurations period 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 5 ms D S U U U D SU U U 1 5 ms D S U U D D S U U D 2 5 ms D S U D D D S U D D 3 10 ms  D SU U U D D D D D 4 10 ms  D S U U D D D D D D 5 10 ms  D S U D D D D D DD 6 5 ms D S U U U D S U U D

From the above table, it can be seen that the LTE TDD supports a 5 msuplink-downlink handover period and a 10 ms uplink-downlink handoverperiod. If a downlink-uplink switchover point period is 5 ms, thespecial subframe will exist in two half frames; if the downlink-uplinkswitchover point period is 10 ms, the special subframe only exists inthe first half frame; the subframe#0 and subframe #5 and the DwPTS arealways used for the downlink transmission; and the UpPTS and subframesfollowing the special subframe closely are exclusively used for theuplink transmission.

The LTE uses a Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access(SC-FDMA) way in uplink, and an uplink time domain symbol is an uplinkSC-FDMA symbol. Formats of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) aredivided into 6 formats: Format 1, Format 1a, Format 1b, Format 2, Format2a and Format 2b, and 15 bits of original information can be transmittedat most. Each PUCCH occupies resources of 2 physical resource blocks inone subframe and occupies resources of 1 physical resource block in oneslot.

In order to satisfy the requirements of International TelecommunicationUnion-Advanced (ITU-Advanced), a Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A)system, as an advanced standard of the LTE, is required to support thewider system bandwidth (up to 100 MHz) and is required to be backwardcompatible with the existing standard of the LTE. Based on the existingLTE system, bandwidths of the LTE system can be combined to obtain thewider bandwidth, and this technology is called as Carrier Aggregation(CA) technology. The technology can improve spectrum utilizationefficiency of an International Mobile Telecommunications-Advanced(IMT-Advanced) system and relieve shortage of spectrum resources,thereby optimizing utilization of the spectrum resources. LTE systembandwidths of the carrier aggregation can be regarded as a ComponentCarriers (CC), and each component carrier also can be called as oneCell, and it can be formed from the aggregation of n component carriers(Cells). Resources of an R10 User Equipment (UE) are composed of n cells(component carriers) of the frequency domain, wherein, one cell iscalled as a Primary cell, and each of the rest cells is called as aSecondary cell.

A format based on Discrete Fourier Transform Spread-Orthogonal FrequencyDivision Multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM) is introduced in the LTE-A system,which is used to support that a UE with more than 4 bits performsfeedback of ACKnowledgement/Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) messages, andthis new format based on the DFT-S-OFDM is called as a control channelformat 3, and the PUCCH Format 3 uses an encoding way of Reed Muller(32, O) in the related art (i.e. an RM (32, O) encoding way), and 11bits of information can be transmitted at most.

In a TDD system, one uplink subframe will correspond to multipledownlink subframes, and each downlink subframe has n cells, as shown inFIG. 3. According to different transmission modes, each cell can haveone transmission block for transmission and also can have twotransmission blocks for transmission. Due to the carrier aggregation,when one subframe corresponds to multiple cells in the frequency domain,the UE is required to perform feedback of downlink channel informationof the multiple cells. Currently, since the bit capacity of the PUCCHfeedback information is limited, it fails to perform simultaneousfeedback of information of multiple cells of a corresponding downlinkchannel in one PUCCH, thus it needs to be allocated to differentsubframes for performing transmission, and this will cause longerfeedback delay of the information, which goes against downlink dynamicscheduling of the base station and influences the system performance.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The main object of the present invention is to provide a method fortransmitting feedback information and a User Equipment (UE), to overcomethe defect that the UE cannot perform simultaneous feedback ofinformation of multiple cells of a corresponding downlink channel in onePhysical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in the related art.

In order to solve the above problem, the present document provides amethod for transmitting feedback information, which comprises:

a User Equipment (UE) performing time domain extension on feedbackinformation within one subframe; and

mapping respectively data which go through the time domain extension anddemodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which gothrough the time domain extension to multiple uplink SingleCarrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within thesubframe, and transmitting the data which go through the time domainextension and the demodulation reference signals corresponding to thedata which go through the time domain extension in a same frequencydomain position in a way of time division multiplexing;

wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physicalresource blocks in the frequency domain, and n is a positive integer.

In the above method,

the step of performing time domain extension on feedback informationcomprises: performing encoding, scrambling and/or interleaving, andmodulation on the feedback information, and then performing DiscreteFourier Transform (DFT) on data after going through the encoding,scrambling and/or interleaving and modulation, wherein, a processingorder of the scrambling, interleaving and modulation is arbitrary.

In the above method,

the step of performing encoding on the feedback information comprises:firstly dividing O bits of feedback information into Y groups, and thenencoding each group of data respectively, an encoding way is RM (32, O)encoding or convolutional encoding; wherein, if the length of the ithgroup of encoded data is Z_(i),

${\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}} = {n \times L \times Q \times 2}$or ${{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}} = {n \times L \times Q}},$

wherein, Q represents the number of bits corresponding to one modulationsymbol, L is the number of subcarriers contained in one physicalresource block, and Y is a positive integer.

In the above method, the step of performing time domain extension onfeedback information within one subframe comprises:

the UE concatenating all groups of encoded feedback information inorder, or interleaving all groups of encoded feedback information, orinterleaving all groups of encoded feedback information by block; orafter respectively performing scrambling and modulation operation oneach group of encoded feedback information, the UE concatenating allgroups of symbols obtained after the modulation, wherein, aconcatenating way is orderly concatenating or interleaving.

In the above method,

the step of dividing O bits of feedback information into Y groupscomprises: starting from a first bit in a sequence composed of thefeedback information, performing division into Y groups in order, exceptthe last group, there are

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$

bits contained in each group, and the number of bits contained in thelast group is equal to or greater than

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$

bits; or performing modulo operation between the location in which eachbit is located in the sequence composed of the feedback information andthe Y, and classifying bits with identical modulo values under a group;or, when the feedback information is channel state information,classifying the bits representing feedback information corresponding toeach cell under a group correspondingly; or, starting from the first bitin the sequence composed of the feedback information, performingdivision into Y groups in order, wherein the number of bits contained ineach group of O mod Y groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits contained in each group of remaining Y−(O mod Y)groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor.$

In the above method,

an interleaving way is to perform interleaving on data to be interleavedaccording to a fixed sequence, or to perform interleaving on the data tobe interleaved according to a row-wise write and column-wise read way,or to perform interleaving according to a block interleaving method.

In the above method,

the step of performing DFT on data after going through the encoding,scrambling and/or interleaving and modulation comprises: performing DFTprocessing on all data in the time domain, or performing DFT processingon data borne by each physical resource block in the time domainrespectively.

In the above method,

a sequence of the demodulation reference signals is composed of asequence with the length of n×L; or a sequence of the demodulationreference signals is composed of n sequences with lengths of L, whereinL is the number of subcarriers contained in one physical resource block.

In the above method,

the sequence is a Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequence or a Computer Generation ZCsequence.

In the above method,

when a total bandwidth is N and physical resource block indexes arenumbered from 0, if a physical resource block index occupied by anuplink SC-FDMA symbol within a first timeslot in the subframe is m, aphysical resource block index occupied by an uplink SC-FDMA symbolwithin a second timeslot in the subframe is N−1−m or m.

In the above method,

when h uplink SC-FDMA symbols are contained in one timeslot, the step ofmapping data which go through the time domain extension and demodulationreference signals corresponding to the data which go through the timedomain extension to multiple uplink SC-FDMA symbols within the subframecomprises: mapping the data which go through the time domain extensionrespectively to f uplink SC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in thesubframe, and mapping the demodulation reference signals correspondingto the data which go through the time domain extension respectively toanother g uplink SC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in the subframe;or, mapping a part of the data which go through the time domainextension to f uplink SC-FDMA symbols within the first timeslot in thesubframe, mapping another part of the data to f uplink SC-FDMA symbolswithin the second timeslot in the subframe, and mapping demodulationreference signals corresponding to all parts of mapped datacorrespondingly to another g uplink SC-FDMA symbols within correspondingtimeslots in the subframe; wherein, h=f+g, and f is a time domainextended sequence length.

In the above method,

when the normal cyclic prefix is used in the timeslots, h=7, f=5 andg=2; and when the extended cyclic prefix is used in the timeslots, h=6,f=5 and g=1.

In the above method,

the feedback information comprises any one or any combination ofACKnowledgement or Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) information, channelstate information, rank indication information and scheduling requestinformation.

In order to solve the above problem, the present document furtherprovides a method for transmitting feedback information, and the methodcomprises:

after a user equipment dividing feedback information into n groups,transmitting each group of data correspondingly through one PhysicalUplink Control Channel (PUCCH) of which a format is PUCCH Format 2 orPUCCH Format 3; wherein, n is 2, and PUCCHs bearing the data occupy asame physical resource block or adjacent physical resource blocks in thefrequency domain.

In the above method,

the step of a user equipment dividing feedback information into n groupscomprises: starting from a first bit in a sequence composed of O bits ofthe feedback information, performing division into n groups in order,except the last group, there are

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits contained in each group, and the number of bits contained in thelast group is equal to or greater than

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits; or performing modulo operation between the location in which eachbit is located in the sequence composed of the feedback information andthe n, and classifying bits with identical modulo values under a group;or, when the feedback information is channel state information,classifying the bits representing feedback information corresponding toeach cell under a group correspondingly; or, starting from the first bitin the sequence composed of the feedback information, performingdivision into Y groups in order, wherein the number of bits contained ineach group of O mod n groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits contained in each group of remaining n−(O mod n)groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor.$

In the above method,

the feedback information comprises any one or any combination ofACKnowledgement or Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) information, channelstate information, rank indication information and scheduling requestinformation.

In order to solve the above problem, the present document furtherprovides a user equipment, and the user equipment comprises: a timedomain extension module and a data transmission module;

the time domain extension module is configured to: perform time domainextension on feedback information within one subframe;

the data transmission module is configured to: map extended dataobtained by the time domain extension module and demodulation referencesignals corresponding to the extended data respectively to multipleuplink Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)symbols within the subframe, and transmit the extended data and thedemodulation reference signals corresponding to the extended data in asame frequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing;wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physicalresource blocks in the frequency domain, and n is a positive integer.

In the above user equipment,

the time domain extension module is configured to perform time domainextension on the feedback information within one subframe in thefollowing way: performing encoding, scrambling and/or interleaving andmodulation on the feedback information, and performing Discrete FourierTransform (DFT) on data which go through the above processing, wherein,a processing order of the scrambling, interleaving and modulation isarbitrary.

In order to solve the above problem, the present document furtherprovides a user equipment, and the user equipment comprises: a groupdivision module and a transmission module;

the group division module is configured to: divide feedback informationinto n groups;

the transmission module is configured to: transmit each group of datacorrespondingly through one Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) ofwhich a format is PUCCH Format 2 or PUCCH Format 3; wherein, n is 2, andPUCCHs bearing the data occupy a same physical resource block oradjacent physical resource blocks in the frequency domain.

In the above user equipment,

the group division module is configured to divide the feedbackinformation into n groups in the following way:

starting from a first bit in a sequence composed of O bits of thefeedback information, performing division into n groups in order, exceptthe last group, there are

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits contained in each group, and the number of bits contained in thelast group is equal to or greater than

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits;

or performing modulo operation between a location in which each bit islocated in a sequence composed of the feedback information and the n,and classifying bits with identical modulo values under a group;

or, when feedback information is channel state information, classifyingbits representing feedback information corresponding to each cell undera group correspondingly;

or, starting from the first bit in the sequence composed of the feedbackinformation, performing division into n groups in order, wherein thenumber of bits contained in each group of O mod n groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits contained in each group of remaining n−(O mod n)groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor.$

In the present invention, the number of bits of feedback information ofUE is increased, which enhances the uplink feedback capacity, guaranteesthe maximum throughput of the system, and decreases the feedback delayof downlink channel information.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of frame structure in a FDD system in therelated art.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of frame structure in a TDD system in therelated art.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of downlink scheduling windowcorresponding to one uplink subframe in a carrier aggregation scenarioin the related art.

FIG. 4 a and FIG. 4 b are respectively schematic diagrams of channelstructures of the PUCCH Format X in the situations of normal cyclicprefix and extended cyclic prefix when n=2.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of tail-biting convolutional code in theexample of the present invention.

FIG. 6 a and FIG. 6B are respectively schematic diagrams of channelstructures of the PUCCH Format X in the situations of normal cyclicprefix and extended cyclic prefix when n=3.

FIG. 7 a and FIG. 7 b are respectively schematic diagrams of channelstructures of the PUCCH Format X in the situations of normal cyclicprefix and extended cyclic prefix when n=1.

FIG. 8 a, FIG. 8 b and FIG. 8 c are respectively schematic diagrams ofencoding, modulation and mapping processes of the PUCCH Format X whenn=1.

FIG. 9 is a flow diagram of method for transmitting feedback informationaccording to the example of the present invention.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION

In order to make the object, technical scheme and advantages of thepresent invention more clear, the examples of the present invention willbe described in detail in combination with the accompanying drawingsbelow. It should be noted that the examples in the present invention andthe characteristics in the examples can be optionally combined with eachother in the condition of no conflict.

A method for transmitting feedback information according to the exampleof the present invention is as shown in FIG. 9, and the method includes:

a UE performing time domain extension on feedback information within onesubframe; wherein, the feedback information can be any one or anycombination of ACKnowledgement or Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK)information, channel state information, rank indication information andscheduling request information; and the number of bits contained in thefeedback information can be determined according to uplink-downlinktimeslot configurations, cells configured for the UE and correspondingtransmission modes;

mapping data which go through the time domain extension and demodulationreference signals corresponding to the data which go through the timedomain extension respectively to multiple uplink SC-FDMA symbols withinthe subframe, and transmitting the data which go through the time domainextension and the demodulation reference signals corresponding to thedata which go through the time domain extension in a same frequencydomain position in a way of time division multiplexing; wherein, eachuplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physical resource blocks inthe frequency domain, and n is a positive integer; a sequence of thedemodulation reference signals can be composed of a ComputerGeneration-Zadoff-Chu (CG-ZC) sequence or a ZC sequence with a length ofn×L (as shown in Table 2, Table 3a and Table 3b), and it also can becomposed of n CG-ZC sequences or n ZC sequences with lengths of L,wherein L is the number of subcarriers contained in one physicalresource block.

TABLE 2 30 CG-ZC sequences with lengths of 12 u φ(0), . . . ,φ(11) 0 −11 3 −3 3 3 1 1 3 1 −3 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 −1 1 −3 −3 1 −3 3 2 1 1 −3 −3 −3 −1−3 −3 1 −3 1 −1 3 −1 1 1 1 1 −1 −3 −3 1 −3 3 −1 4 −1 3 1 −1 1 −1 −3 −1 1−1 1 3 5 1 −3 3 −1 −1 1 1 −1 −1 3 −3 1 6 −1 3 −3 −3 −3 3 1 −1 3 3 −3 1 7−3 −1 −1 −1 1 −3 3 −1 1 −3 3 1 8 1 −3 3 1 −1 −1 −1 1 1 3 −1 1 9 1 −3 −13 3 −1 −3 1 1 1 1 1 10 −1 3 −1 1 1 −3 −3 −1 −3 −3 3 −1 11 3 1 −1 −1 3 3−3 1 3 1 3 3 12 1 −3 1 1 −3 1 1 1 −3 −3 −3 1 13 3 3 −3 3 −3 1 1 3 −1 −33 3 14 −3 1 −1 −3 −1 3 1 3 3 3 −1 1 15 3 −1 1 −3 −1 −1 1 1 3 1 −1 −3 161 3 1 −1 1 3 3 3 −1 −1 3 −1 17 −3 1 1 3 −3 3 −3 −3 3 1 3 −1 18 −3 3 1 1−3 1 −3 −3 −1 −1 1 −3 19 −1 3 1 3 1 −1 −1 3 −3 −1 −3 −1 20 −1 −3 1 1 1 13 1 −1 1 −3 −1 21 −1 3 −1 1 −3 −3 −3 −3 −3 1 −1 −3 22 1 1 −3 −3 −3 −3 −13 −3 1 −3 3 23 1 1 −1 −3 −1 −3 1 −1 1 3 −1 1 24 1 1 3 1 3 3 −1 1 −1 −3−3 1 25 1 −3 3 3 1 3 3 1 −3 −1 −1 3 26 1 3 −3 −3 3 −3 1 −1 −1 3 −1 −3 27−3 −1 −3 −1 −3 3 1 −1 1 3 −3 −3 28 −1 3 −3 3 −1 3 3 −3 3 3 −1 −1 29 3 −3−3 −1 −1 −3 −1 3 −3 3 1 −1

TABLE 3a Values of the first 12 bits in 30 CG−ZC sequences with lengthsof 24 u φ(0), . . . ,φ(11) 0 −1 3 1 −3 3 −1 1 3 −3 3 1 3 1 −3 3 −3 −3 −31 −3 −3 3 −1 1 1 2 3 −1 3 3 1 1 −3 3 3 3 3 1 3 −1 −3 1 1 3 −3 1 1 −3 −1−1 1 4 −1 −1 −1 −3 −3 −1 1 1 3 3 −1 3 5 −3 1 1 3 −1 1 3 1 −3 1 −3 1 6 11 −1 −1 3 −3 −3 3 −3 1 −1 −1 7 −3 3 3 −1 −1 −3 −1 3 1 3 1 3 8 −3 1 3 −31 −1 −3 3 −3 3 −1 −1 9 1 1 −3 3 3 −1 −3 −1 3 −3 3 3 10 −1 1 −3 −3 3 −1 3−1 −1 −3 −3 −3 11 1 3 3 −3 −3 1 3 1 −1 −3 −3 −3 12 1 3 3 1 1 1 −1 −1 1−3 3 −1 13 3 −1 −1 −1 −1 −3 −1 3 3 1 −1 1 14 −3 −3 3 1 3 1 −3 3 1 3 1 115 −1 −1 1 −3 1 3 −3 1 −1 −3 −1 3 16 −1 −3 3 −1 −1 −1 −1 1 1 −3 3 1 17 13 −1 3 3 −1 −3 1 −1 −3 3 3 18 1 1 1 1 1 −1 3 −1 −3 1 1 3 19 1 3 3 1 −1−3 3 −1 3 3 3 −3 20 −1 −3 3 −3 −3 −3 −1 −1 −3 −1 −3 3 21 −3 −3 1 1 −1 1−1 1 −1 3 1 −3 22 −3 −1 −3 3 1 −1 −3 −1 −3 −3 3 −3 23 −1 −1 −1 −1 3 3 31 3 3 −3 1 24 1 −1 3 3 −1 −3 3 −3 −1 −1 3 −1 25 1 −1 1 −1 3 −1 3 1 1 −1−1 −3 26 −3 −1 1 3 1 1 −3 −1 −1 −3 3 −3 27 −1 −3 3 3 1 1 3 −1 −3 −1 −1−1 28 −1 −3 −1 −1 1 −3 −1 −1 1 −1 −3 1 29 1 1 −1 −1 −3 −1 3 −1 3 −1 1 3

TABLE 3b Values of the first 12 bits in 30 CG−ZC sequences with lengthsof 24 u φ(12), . . . ,φ(23) 0 −3 3 1 1 −1 −1 3 −3 3 −3 −1 −3 1 1 3 1 −13 −3 −3 1 3 1 1 −3 2 −1 3 −1 1 1 −1 −3 −1 −1 1 3 3 3 3 1 3 1 −1 3 1 1 −3−1 −3 −1 4 −1 1 −1 −3 1 −1 −3 −3 1 −3 −1 −1 5 1 −1 −1 3 −1 −3 3 −3 −3 −31 1 6 1 −1 1 1 −1 −3 −1 1 −1 3 −1 −3 7 1 1 −1 3 1 −1 1 3 −3 −1 −1 1 8 −1−1 1 −3 −3 −3 1 −3 −3 −3 1 −3 9 3 −1 1 1 −3 1 −1 1 1 −3 1 1 10 −1 −3 −31 −1 1 3 3 −1 1 −1 3 11 3 3 −3 3 3 −1 −3 3 −1 1 −3 1 12 1 1 −3 3 3 −1 −33 −3 −1 −3 −1 13 3 3 3 −1 1 1 −3 1 3 −1 −3 3 14 3 3 −1 −1 −3 1 −3 −1 3 11 3 15 1 3 1 −1 −3 −3 −1 −1 −3 −3 −3 −1 16 3 3 1 −1 1 −3 1 −3 1 1 −3 −117 3 −1 1 1 3 −1 −3 −1 3 −1 −1 −1 18 −3 1 −3 −1 1 1 −3 −3 3 1 1 −3 19 1−1 1 −1 −3 −1 1 3 −1 3 −3 −3 20 1 3 −3 −1 3 −1 1 −1 3 −3 1 −1 21 −1 1 −11 −1 −1 3 3 −3 −1 1 −3 22 3 −3 −1 1 3 1 −3 1 3 3 −1 −3 23 3 −1 3 −1 3 3−3 3 1 −1 3 3 24 3 −1 −1 1 1 1 1 −1 −1 −3 −1 3 25 1 1 −3 1 3 −3 1 1 −3−3 −1 −1 26 3 1 −3 3 −3 1 −1 1 −3 1 1 1 27 3 1 −3 −3 −1 3 −3 −1 −3 −1 −3−1 28 1 −3 1 −3 −3 3 1 1 −1 3 −1 −1 29 1 −1 3 1 3 −3 −3 1 −1 −1 1 3

It is assumed that the total bandwidth is N and physical resource blockindexes are numbered from 0, when a physical resource block indexoccupied by an uplink SC-FDMA symbol within a first timeslot in thesubframe is m, a physical resource block index occupied by an uplinkSC-FDMA symbol within a second timeslot in the subframe can be eitherN−1−m or m. The channel resource information can be configured to theabove UE through upper layer signalings.

When h uplink SC-FDMA symbols are contained in one timeslot, mapping thedata which go through the time domain extension and the demodulationreference signals corresponding to the data which go through the timedomain extension to multiple uplink SC-FDMA symbols within the subframemeans: mapping respectively the data which go through the time domainextension to f uplink SC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in thesubframe, and mapping respectively the demodulation reference signalscorresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension toanother g uplink SC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in the subframe,that is, the data transmitted on two timeslots within the same subframeare identical after completing the mapping; or, mapping a part of thedata which go through the time domain extension to f uplink SC-FDMAsymbols within the first timeslot in the subframe, mapping another partof the data to f uplink SC-FDMA symbols within the second timeslot inthe subframe, and mapping demodulation reference signals correspondingto all parts of the mapped data correspondingly to another g uplinkSC-FDMA symbols within corresponding timeslots in the subframe, that is,the data transmitted on two timeslots within the same subframe aredifferent after completing the mapping. Wherein, h=f+g, and f is a timedomain extended code length.

In the specific implementation, performing time domain extension on thefeedback information means: extending an encoded sequence to acorresponding uplink SC-FDMA symbol by using an orthogonal sequence, andthe orthogonal sequence can be a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT)sequence. Specifically, it includes: performing encoding, scramblingand/or interleaving and modulation on the data, and then performing DFTon data which go through the above processing. Wherein, the order of thescrambling, interleaving and modulation can be changed arbitrarily.

Wherein, the interleaving method is to perform interleaving on feedbackinformation to be interleaved according to a sequence {x₀, x₁, . . . ,x_(B-1)}, x₀, x₁, . . . , x_(B-1) is a positive integer sequence from 1to B, wherein, B is an interleaved sequence length; or the interleavingmethod is a interleaving method according to row-wise write andcolumn-wise read;

an encoding method can be RM (32, O) encoding or convolutional encoding.When a convolutional encoding way is used, it is also required toperform encoding on Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) codes and the abovefeedback information together. After going through the encoding, O bitsof the feedback information turn into n×L×Q×2 bits (applied to asituation that data transmitted on two timeslots within the samesubframe are different) or L×Q×n bits (applied to a situation that datatransmitted on two timeslots within the same subframe are identical),wherein, Q represents the number of bits corresponding to one modulationsymbol, L is the number of subcarriers contained in one physicalresource block, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successivephysical resource blocks in the frequency domain, and O represents theamount of feedback information required to be encoded, which isequivalent to the number of original bits, namely the number of bitsbefore the encoding; Y represents the number of groups when the feedbackinformation is encoded in group, and it is a positive integer.

When the encoding is performed, the above O bits of the feedbackinformation can be firstly divided into Y groups, and then each group ofdata is encoded respectively. It is assumed that, if the length of theith group of data is Z_(i) after the encoding,

${\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}\; Z_{i}} = {n \times L \times Q \times 2}$

(applied to a situation that the data transmitted on two timeslotswithin the same subframe are different) or

${\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}\; Z_{i}} = {n \times L \times Q}$

(applied to a situation that the data transmitted on two timeslotswithin the same subframe are identical). After the encoding iscompleted, all groups of encoded data can be concatenated in order, suchas b₀ ⁰, . . . , b_(B-1) ⁰, b₀ ^(j), . . . , b_(B-1) ^(j); or all groupsof encoded data can be interleaved, such as b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₀ ^(j), . . ., b_(B-1) ⁰ . . . , b_(B-1) ^(j); or all groups of encoded data can beinterleaved by block, for example, the data in each group arerespectively divided into two blocks in order, and blocks in each groupare interleaved, for example, in two groups of data, if 24 bits arecontained in each group, a result after the concatenating is b₀ ⁰, . . ., b₀ ^(j), . . . , b_(B-1) ⁰ . . . , b_(B-1) ^(j);

Preferably, the group division method can be any one of the followingthree ways:

way 1: starting from the first bit in a sequence composed of the abovefeedback information, performing division into Y groups in order, exceptthe last group, there are

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$

bits contained in each group, and the number of bits contained in thelast group can be equal to or greater than

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$

bits; wherein, the symbol └ ┘ represents rounding down;

way 2: performing modulo operation between the location in which eachbit is located in the sequence composed of the above feedbackinformation and the Y, and classifying bits with identical modulo valuesunder a group;

way 3: when the feedback information is channel state information,classifying bits representing feedback information corresponding to eachcell under a group correspondingly;

way 4: starting from the first bit in the sequence composed of the abovefeedback information, performing division into Y groups in order,wherein the number of bits contained in each group of O mod Y groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits contained in each group of remaining Y−(O mod Y)groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor.$

mod represents modulo.

Moreover, performing DFT on the data which go through the aboveprocessing can be: performing DFT processing on all data in a timedomain, or performing DFT processing on data of each physical resourceblock in the time domain respectively.

In one example, the total bandwidth is N, physical resource blockindexes are numbered from 0, a physical resource block index occupied bya channel which transmits the above feedback information with the abovemethod on the first timeslot in one subframe is m, and a physicalresource block index on the second timeslot in the subframe is N−1−m,and, original O bits of the feedback information are encoded as n×L×Q×2bits, and an RM (32, O) encoding way is used, wherein, n=1, L=12 andQ=2, and a Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation mode is used.The time domain length of the channel structure is one subframe, when acyclic prefix is a normal cyclic prefix, the number of uplink SC-FDMAsymbols corresponding to the data which go through the time domainextension is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding tothe demodulation reference signals is 2 and they are located on the 2nduplink SC-FDMA symbol and the 6th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of eachtimeslot; and when the cyclic prefix is an extended cyclic prefix, thenumber of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the data which gothrough the time domain extension is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMAsymbols corresponding to the demodulation reference signals is 1 and itis located on the 3rd uplink SC-FDMA symbol or the 4th uplink SC-FDMAsymbol of each timeslot, and a time domain extended code is a 5-orderDFT sequence, and at this point, the channel structure is a PUCCH Format3.

In another example, the total bandwidth is N, physical resource blockindexes are numbered from 0, a physical resource block index occupied bya channel which transmits the above feedback information with the abovemethod on the first timeslot in one subframe is m, and a physicalresource block index occupied on the second timeslot in the subframe isN−1−m, and the time domain length of the channel structure is onesubframe, when a cyclic prefix is a normal cyclic prefix, the number ofuplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the data which go through thetime domain extension is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbolscorresponding to the demodulation reference signals is 2 and they arelocated on the 2nd uplink SC-FDMA symbol and the 6th uplink SC-FDMAsymbol of each timeslot; and when the cyclic prefix is an extendedcyclic prefix, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to thedata is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to thedemodulation reference signals is 1 and it is located on the 3rd uplinkSC-FDMA symbol or the 4th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of each timeslot, and atime domain extended code is a 5-order DFT sequence. Original O bits ofthe feedback information are divided into Y groups, and RM (32, O)encoding is performed on each group of data respectively, and the lengthof the ith group of data is L×Q after the encoding, wherein, Y=2, L=12and Q=2, and a QPSK modulation mode is used; or, convolutional encodingis performed on the original O bits of the feedback information, and thelength is L×Q×n×2 after encoding, wherein, Y=2, n=1, L=12 and Q=2, andthe QPSK modulation mode is used; after performing encoding on the data,scrambling and/or interleaving and modulation are performed (or thescrambling and modulation are performed after performing encoding on thedata, and the interleaving is performed or not performed at last),wherein, the interleaving method is to perform interleaving according toa fixed sequence, or according to a row-wise write and column-wise readinterleaving method, or according to a block interleaving method.

In another example, the total bandwidth is N, physical resource blockindexes are numbered from 0, a physical resource block index occupied bya channel which transmits the above feedback information with the abovemethod on the first timeslot in one subframe is m, and a physicalresource block index occupied on the second timeslot in the subframe isN−1−m, and the time domain length of the channel structure is onesubframe, and when a cyclic prefix is a normal cyclic prefix, the numberof uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the data which go through thetime domain extension is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbolscorresponding to the demodulation reference signals is 2 and they arelocated on the 2nd uplink SC-FDMA symbol and the 6th uplink SC-FDMAsymbol of each timeslot; and when the cyclic prefix is an extendedcyclic prefix, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to thedata which go through the time domain extension is 5, the number ofuplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the demodulation referencesignals is 1 and it is located on the 3rd uplink SC-FDMA symbol or the4th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of each timeslot, and the time domain extendedcode is a 5-order DFT sequence. Original O bits of the feedbackinformation are divided into Y groups, RM (32, O) encoding is performedon each group of data respectively, and the length of the ith group ofdata after encoding is L×Q×2 or L×Q, wherein, Y=2, n=2, L=12 and Q=2,and the QPSK modulation mode is used; or, convolutional encoding isperformed on the original O bits, and the length after encoding isL×Q×2×n or L×Q×n, wherein, Y=2, n=2, L=12 and Q=2, and the QPSKmodulation mode is used. When the QPSK modulation mode is used, Q=2,when the 16 Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) modulation mode isused, Q=4, and when the 64 QAM modulation mode is used, Q=6; afterperforming encoding on the data, scrambling and/or interleaving andmodulation are performed (or, after performing encoding on the data, thescrambling, modulation and/or interleaving are performed), wherein, theinterleaving method is to perform interleaving according to a fixedsequence, or to perform interleaving according to row-wise write andcolumn-wise reades, or to perform interleaving according to a blockinterleaving method.

A user equipment of the example of the present invention includes a timedomain extension module and a data transmission module; the time domainextension module is configured to: perform time domain extension onfeedback information within one subframe; and the data transmissionmodule is configured to: map extended data obtained by the time domainextension module and demodulation reference signals corresponding to theextended data respectively to multiple uplink SC-FDMA symbols within thesubframe, and transmit the extended data and the demodulation referencesignals corresponding to the extended data in a same frequency domainposition in a way of time division multiplexing; wherein, each uplinkSC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physical resource blocks in thefrequency domain, and n is a positive integer.

In addition, the time domain extension module is configured to performtime domain extension on the feedback information within one subframe inthe following way: performing encoding, scrambling and/or interleavingand modulation on the above feedback information, and then performingDiscrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on data which go through the aboveprocessing, wherein, the processing sequence of the scrambling,interleaving and modulation is arbitrary.

The present document also provides a user equipment, the user equipmentincludes a group division module and a transmission module; the groupdivision module is configured to: divide feedback information into ngroups; and the transmission module is configured to: transmit eachgroup of data correspondingly through one PUCCH of which a format isPUCCH Format 2 or PUCCH Format 3; wherein, n is 2, and PUCCHs bearingthe data occupy a same physical resource block or adjacent physicalresource blocks in the frequency domain.

Wherein, the group division module is configured to divide the feedbackinformation into n groups in the following way:

starting from the first bit in a sequence composed of O bits of feedbackinformation, performing division into n groups in order, except the lastgroup, there are

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits contained in each group, and the number of bits contained in thelast group is equal to or greater than

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$

bits;

or performing modulo operation between the location in which each bit islocated in a sequence composed of the feedback information and the n,and classifying bits with identical modulo values under a group;

or, when feedback information is channel state information, classifyingbits representing feedback information corresponding to each cell undera group correspondingly;

or, starting from the first bit in the sequence composed of the feedbackinformation, performing division into n groups in order, wherein thenumber of bits contained in each group of O mod n groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits contained in each group of remaining n−(O mod n)groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor.$

The present invention will be further described through 4 examplesbelow.

Example 1

A PUCCH Format X is used to transmit feedback information;

In a carrier aggregation scenario, when n=2, channel structures of thePUCCH Format X are as shown in FIG. 4 a and FIG. 4 b, wherein RSrepresents demodulation reference signals, and it is describedspecifically as follows.

n successive physical resource blocks are occupied in a frequencydomain, and time domain extension is performed for data on one uplinkSC-FDMA symbol, and the data after the time domain extension are mappedto an uplink SC-FDMA symbol in a corresponding time domain, and thedemodulation reference signals and data are transmitted in a samefrequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing;

the total bandwidth is N, and physical resource block indexes arenumbered from 0, if a physical resource block index of the channel inthe first timeslot is m, a physical resource block index in the secondtimeslot is N−1−m. A time domain length of the channel structure is onesubframe, when a cyclic prefix is a normal cyclic prefix, as shown inFIG. 4 a, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the datais 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to thedemodulation reference signals is 2 and they are respectively located onthe 2nd uplink SC-FDMA symbol and the 6th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of eachtimeslot; and when the cyclic prefix is an extended cyclic prefix, asshown in FIG. 4 b, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding tothe data is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to thedemodulation reference signals is 1 and it is located on the 3rd uplinkSC-FDMA symbol or the 4th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of each timeslot. Asshown in Table 4, a time domain extended code is a 5-order DFT sequence.

TABLE 4 DFT sequence Sequence index Sequence [w(0) Λ w(4)] 0 [1 1 1 1 1]1 [1 e^(j8π/5) e^(j6π/5) e^(j4π/5) e^(j2π/5)] 2 [1 e^(j6π/5) e^(j2π/5)e^(j8π/5) e^(j4π/5)] 3 [1 e^(j4π/5) e^(j8π/5) e^(j2π/5) e^(j6π/5)] 4 [1e^(j2π/5) e^(j4π/5) e^(j6π/5) e^(j8π/5)]

Encoding Scheme 1

Original O bits of the feedback information are divided into Y groups,and RM (32, O) encoding is performed on each group of data respectively,and the length of the ith group of data after encoding is L×Q×2 or L×Q,wherein, Y=n=2, L=12 and Q=2, and a QPSK modulation mode is used; orconvolutional encoding is performed on the original O bits of thefeedback information, and the length is L×Q×2×n or L×Q×n after theencoding, wherein, Y=n=2, L=12 and Q=2, and the QPSK modulation mode isused.

In the above encoding scheme, a group division way of the first

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{2} \right\rfloor$

bits belonging to a group and the remaining bits belonging to a groupcan be used; or, a group division way of data in an even bit belongingto a group and data in an odd bit belonging to a group can be used.

During the specific implementation, a specific encoding way of the usedRM (32, O) encoding is: the fundamental sequence length performingencoding on multiple feedback information including specifically:

${b_{i} = {\sum\limits_{n = 0}^{M_{j} - 1}\; {\left( {O_{n} \cdot M_{{{mod}{({i,N})}},h}} \right){mod}\mspace{11mu} 2}}},$

wherein, i=0, 1, 2, . . . , B_(j)−1, b₀ ^(j), b₁ ^(j) . . . , b_(B) _(j)₋₁ ^(j) represents a bit sequence obtained after encoding the jth group,B_(j) represents the length of the jth group of data after going throughthe encoding, if the information borne on two timeslots within onesubframe is identical, B_(j)=L×Q; and if the information borne on twotimeslots within one subframe is different, B_(j)=2×L×Q. N representsthe fundamental sequence length, M_(i,h) represents the value of serialnumber i in a fundamental sequence h, O₀ ^(j), O₁ ^(j), K, O_(M) _(j) ₋₁^(j) represents a bit sequence of feedback information included in thejth group of data, M_(j) represents the number of bits contained in thejth group of data, fundamental sequences are as shown in Table 5, andthe fundamental sequences also can be in the form where the linereplacement has been performed on the fundamental sequences of Table 5.

TABLE 5 Fundamental sequences i Mi, 0 Mi, 1 Mi, 2 Mi, 3 Mi, 4 Mi, 5 Mi,6 Mi, 7 Mi, 8 Mi, 9 Mi, 10 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 01 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 01 8 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 9 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 10 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 11 11 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 13 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 01 1 14 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 15 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 16 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 00 1 0 17 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 18 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 19 1 0 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 0 20 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 21 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 22 1 0 0 0 1 00 1 1 0 1 23 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 24 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 25 1 1 0 0 01 1 1 0 0 1 26 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 27 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 28 1 0 1 01 1 1 0 1 0 0 29 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 30 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 31 1 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Each group of encoded bit sequences which are output after going throughthe encoding is b₀, b₁ . . . , b_(B-1), wherein, B represents the numberof bits after the encoding, if the information borne on two timeslotswithin the same subframe is identical, B=n×L×Q; and if the informationborne on two timeslots within the same subframe is different, B=2×n×L×Q;

all groups of the bits can be concatenated in order, such as b₀ ⁰, . . ., b_(B-1) ⁰, . . . , b₀ ^(j), . . . , b_(B-1) ^(j), and also can beinterleaved, such as b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₀ ^(j), . . . , b_(B-1) ⁰, . . . ,b_(B-1) ^(j).

Encoding Scheme 2

Feedback information O₀, O₁, . . . O_(M-1) is encoded by using atail-biting convolutional code with a constraint length of 7 and a coderate of ⅓ as shown in FIG. 5; wherein, b₀, b₁, . . . , b_(B-1)represents a bit sequence after the encoding, B represents a lengthafter the encoding, if the information borne on two timeslots within thesame subframe is identical, B=n×L×Q, and if the information borne on twotimeslots within the same subframe is different, B=2×n×L×Q;

the above interleaving process is to convert the encoded sequence b₀, .. . , b₁, . . . , b_(B-1) to obtain b′₀, . . . , b′₁, . . . , b′_(B-1)according to a certain rule (such as performing interleaving accordingto a fixed sequence, or performing interleaving according to a row-wisewrite and column-wise read method, or performing interleaving accordingto a block interleaving method); wherein, the scrambling process can bethat modulo-2 is performed after adding a scrambling sequence c₀, . . ., c₁, . . . , c_(B-1) and the sequence b′₀, . . . , b′₁, . . . ,b′_(B-1) obtained after the encoding and interleaving (or the sequenceb₀, . . . , b₁, . . . , b_(B-1) obtained after the encoding), to obtaina scrambled sequence q₀, . . . , q₁, . . . , q_(B-1), namelyq_(i)=mod((c_(i)+b′_(i)), 2), wherein, i=0, 1, . . . , B−1, and thescrambling sequence can be composed of pseudorandom sequences. Theinterleaving process is an optional process.

For example, when the number of bits to be interleaved is 48,interleaving is performed on the bits to be interleaved according to afixed sequence {x₀, x₁ . . . , x_(B-1)}, and x₀, x₁ . . . , x_(B-1) apositive integer sequence from 1 to B;

a QPSK modulation mode is used, and a modulated sequence is

$Q_{0},Q_{1},L,Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1},$

wherein, Q_(m)=2.

In the same structure and encoding process, when n=3, the channelstructures are as shown in FIG. 6 a and FIG. 6 b; when encoding isperformed on the feedback information in group, the group division isperformed in a way of the first

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{3} \right\rfloor$

bits belonging to a group, the

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{3} \right\rfloor + {1{st}\mspace{14mu} {bit}\mspace{14mu} {to}\mspace{14mu} \left\lfloor \frac{O}{3} \right\rfloor \times 2{nd}\mspace{14mu} {bit}}$

belonging to a group and the remainder bits belonging to a group;

or, bits with identical modulo values are classified under a group afterbit locations modulo 3 is performed.

or, when the feedback information is channel state information, thefeedback information corresponding to each cell is in a group;

the number of bits in O mod Y groups is

${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor + 1},$

and the number of bits in Y−(O mod Y) groups is

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor;$

The channel in the example can be applied when the number of bits ofACK/NACK feedback information in TDD is greater than 11 in the carrieraggregation or when a UE needs to perform feedback of channel stateinformation of r downlink cells simultaneously.

Example 2

Feedback information are transmitted on adjacent physical resourceblocks or the same physical resource block by using n PUCCH Formats 3,wherein n is 2;

the feedback information are divided into n groups, each group offeedback information corresponds to one PUCCH Format 3, and each PUCCHFormat 3 transmits the data in a corresponding group;

a group division method is classifying the first

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{2} \right\rfloor$

bits under a group and classifying the remainder bits under a group; orbits in the even bit are in a group and bits in the odd bit are in agroup; or when the feedback information is channel state information,the feedback information corresponding to each cell is in a group.

Channel resources of the n PUCCH Formats 3 are configured by upper layersignalings;

the feedback information bits transmitted by the channel can be one ormultiple kinds of ACK/NACK information, channel state information, rankindication information and scheduling request information.

Example 3

Feedback information are transmitted on adjacent physical resourceblocks or the same physical resource block by using n PUCCH Formats 2,wherein n is 2;

the feedback information can be divided into n groups, each group offeedback information corresponds to one PUCCH Format 2, and each PUCCHFormat 2 transmits the feedback information in a corresponding group.

A group division method is classifying the first

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{2} \right\rfloor$

bits under a group and classifying the remainder bits under a group; orbits in the even bit are in a group and bits in the odd bit are in agroup; or when the feedback information is channel state information,the feedback information corresponding to each cell is in a group.

Channel resources of the n PUCCH Formats 2 can be configured by upperlayer signalings;

the feedback information bits transmitted by the channel can be one ormultiple kinds of ACK/NACK information, channel state information, rankindication information and scheduling request information.

Example 4

In a carrier aggregation scenario, a PUCCH Format X is used to transmitfeedback information;

when n is 1, a channel structure is as shown in FIG. 7, and it isdescribed specifically as follows.

n successive physical resource blocks are occupied in a frequencydomain, and time domain extension is performed for data on one uplinkSC-FDMA symbol, and the data after the time domain extension are mappedto an uplink SC-FDMA symbol in a corresponding time domain, anddemodulation reference signals and data are transmitted in a samefrequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing;

the total bandwidth is N, physical resource block indexes are numberedfrom 0, a physical resource block index of the channel in the firsttimeslot is m, a physical resource block index in the second timeslot isN−1−m, and the time domain length of the channel structure is onesubframe, and when a cyclic prefix is a normal cyclic prefix, the numberof uplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the data is 5, the number ofuplink SC-FDMA symbols corresponding to the demodulation referencesignals is 2 and they are located on the 2nd uplink SC-FDMA symbol andthe 6th uplink SC-FDMA symbol of each timeslot; and when the cyclicprefix is an extended cyclic prefix, the number of uplink SC-FDMAsymbols corresponding to the data is 5, the number of uplink SC-FDMAsymbols corresponding to the demodulation reference signals is 1 and itis located on the 3rd uplink SC-FDMA symbol or the 4th uplink SC-FDMAsymbol of each timeslot, and a time domain extended code is a 5-orderDFT sequence as shown in Table 4.

Encoding Scheme 1

Original O bits of data are divided into Y groups, RM (24, O) encodingis performed on each group of data respectively, and as shown in Table5, the length of the ith group is L×Q after the encoding, wherein, Y=2,L=12 and Q=2, and a QPSK modulation mode is used; or the original O bitsof data are divided into Y groups, convolutional encoding is performedon each group of data respectively, and the length is L×Q after theencoding, wherein, Y=2, n=1, L=12 and Q=2, and the QPSK modulation modeis used;

before the encoding, a group division way of the first

$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{2} \right\rfloor$

bits belonging to a group and the remainder bits belonging to a groupcan be used; or, a group division way of classifying bits in the evenbit under a group and classifying bits in the odd bit under anothergroup can be used.

A specific encoding way of the used RM (24, O) encoding is: afundamental sequence length performing encoding on multiple feedbackinformation, including specifically:

${b_{i} = {\sum\limits_{n = 0}^{M_{j} - 1}\; {\left( {O_{n} \cdot M_{{{mod}{({i,N})}},h}} \right){mod}\mspace{11mu} 2}}},$

wherein, i=0, 1, 2, . . . , B_(j)−1, b₀ ^(j), b₁ ^(j) . . . , b_(B) _(j)₋₁ represents a bit sequence after the encoding, B_(j) represents thelength B_(j)=L×Q of the jth group after the encoding, N represents thefundamental sequence length, M_(i,h) represents a value of serial numberi in a fundamental sequence h, O₀ ^(j), O₁ ^(j), K, O_(M) _(j) ₋₁ ^(j)represents feedback information included in the jth group, M_(j)represents the number of information bits contained in the jth group,fundamental sequences are as shown in Table 6, and the fundamentalsequences also can be in the form where the line replacement has beenperformed on the fundamental sequences of Table 6.

Each group of encoded bit sequences which are output after going throughthe encoding is b₀, b₁ . . . , b_(B-1), wherein, B represents the lengthafter the encoding, and B=2×L×Q;

all groups of the bits can be concatenated in order, such as b₀ ⁰, . . ., b_(B-1) ⁰, . . . , b₀ ^(j), . . . , b_(B-1) ^(j), and also can beinterleaved, such as b₀ ⁰, . . . , b_(B-1) ⁰, . . . , b₀ ^(j), . . . ,b_(B-1) ^(j); or, they can be concatenated by block, 2 bits are in ablock, and all groups are interleaved with a block as a unit, such as b₀⁰, b₁ ⁰, b₀ ¹, b₁ ¹, . . . , b₂₂ ⁰, b₂₃ ⁰, b₂₂ ¹, b₂₃ ¹; or, they can beconcatenated by block, 12 bits are in a group, and all groups areinterleaved with a block as a unit, such as b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₁₁ ⁰, b₀ ¹, .. . , b₁₁ ¹, b₁₂ ⁰, . . . , b₂₃ ⁰, b₁₂ ¹, . . . , b₂₃ ¹.

TABLE 6 Fundamental sequences i M_(i,0) M_(i,1) M_(i,2) M_(i,3) M_(i,4)M_(i,5) M_(i,6) M_(i,7) M_(i,8) M_(i,9) M_(i,10) 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 14 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 5 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 6 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 17 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 8 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 9 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 110 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 11 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 12 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 11 13 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 14 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 15 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 01 1 16 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 17 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 18 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 10 0 0 19 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 20 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 21 1 1 0 1 0 0 00 0 1 1 22 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 23 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1

Encoding Scheme 2

An encoding way of tail-biting convolutional code with a constraintlength of 7 and a code rate of ⅓ as shown in FIG. 5 is used on feedbackinformation O₀, O₁, . . . O_(M-1); b₀, b₁, . . . , b_(B-1) represents abit sequence after the encoding, B represents the length after theencoding, and B=2×L×Q;

as shown in FIG. 8 a, encoding, scrambling and/or interleaving andmodulation are performed on the feedback information, and then DFT isperformed on data which go through the above processing;

wherein the interleaving process is to convert the encoded sequence b₀,b₁ . . . , b_(B-1)) to obtain b′₀, b′₁, . . . , b′_(B-1) according to acertain rule (the interleaving process is optional); the interleavingmethod is performing interleaving on bits to be interleaved according toa sequence {x₀, x₁ . . . , x_(B-1)}, x₀, x₁ . . . , x_(B-1) is apositive integer sequence from 1 to B, or, the interleaving method is aninterleaving method according to row-wise write and column-wise reades;for example, when the number of bits to be interleaved is 48, thesequence is {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31,33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22,24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48}, or {1, 2, 25, 26,3, 4, 27, 28, 5, 6, 29, 30, 7, 8, 31, 32, 9, 10, 33, 34, 11, 12, 35, 36,13, 14, 37, 38, 15, 16, 39, 40, 17, 18, 41, 42, 19, 20, 43, 44, 21, 22,45, 46, 23, 24, 47, 48}, or {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 25,26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48},bits to be interleaved are rearranged according to the above order, andthe interleaving is completed. Or, the interleaving method is a blockinterleaving method, that is, with regard to the encoding scheme 1, eachgroup corresponds to 24 bits, and the bits data in one group are dividedinto 2 blocks in order, and each block contains 12 bits, and interleavedconcatenating is performed on all blocks of data, and if it is assumedthat the bit sequence is b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₂₃ ⁰, b₀ ¹ . . . , b₂₃ ¹ beforethe interleaving, the bit sequence is b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₁₁ ⁰, b₀ ¹, . . . ,b₁₁ ¹, b₁₂ ⁰, . . . , b₂₃ ⁰, b₁₂ ¹, . . . , b₂₃ ¹ after theinterleaving; or, the interleaving method is a block interleavingmethod, that is, with regard to the encoding scheme 1, each groupcorresponds to 24 bits, and the bits data in one group are divided into6 blocks in order, and each block contains 2 bits, and interleavedconcatenating is performed on all blocks of the data, and if it isassumed that the bit sequence is b₀ ⁰, . . . , b₂₃ ⁰, b₀ ¹ . . . , b₂₃ ¹before the interleaving, the bit sequence is b₀ ⁰, b₁ ⁰, b₀ ¹, b₁ ¹, . .. , b₂₂ ⁰, b₂₃ ⁰, b₂₂ ¹, b₂₃ ¹ after the interleaving;

wherein the scrambling process is that modulo-2 is performed afteradding a scrambling sequence c₀, c₁, . . . , c_(B-1) and the encoded andinterleaved sequence b′₀, b′₁, . . . , b′_(B-1) (or the encoded sequenceb₀, b₁, . . . , b_(B-1)), and obtaining a scrambled sequence q₀, q₁, . .. , q_(B-1), namely q_(i)=mod((c_(i)+b′_(i)), 2)(i=0, 1, . . . B−1), andthe scrambling sequence is composed of pseudorandom sequences;

wherein the modulation mode is QPSK, and a modulated sequence is

$Q_{0},Q_{1},{{\ldots \mspace{14mu} {Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}\left( {Q_{m} = 2} \right)}};}$

wherein time domain extension means extending the encoded sequence tothe occupied symbols by using an orthogonal sequence, and the orthogonalsequence can be a DFT sequence;

wherein the DFT means performing DFT operation on the modulated sequenceon the symbol;

or,

as shown in FIG. 8 b, encoding, scrambling, modulation and/orinterleaving are performed on the data, and then Discrete FourierTransform (DFT) is performed on data which go through the aboveprocessing;

wherein the scrambling process is that modulo-2 is performed afteradding a scrambling sequence c₀, c₁, . . . , c_(B-1) and the encodedsequence b₀, b₁, . . . , b_(B-1), and obtaining a scrambled sequence q₀,q₁, . . . , q_(B-1), namely q_(i)=mod((c_(i)+b′_(i)), 2)(i=0, 1, . . .B−1), and the scrambling sequence is composed of pseudorandom sequences;

wherein the modulation mode is QPSK, (Q_(m)=2), and a modulated sequenceis

$Q_{0},Q_{1},{{\ldots \mspace{14mu} Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}};}$

wherein the interleaving process is to convert the modulated sequence

$Q_{0},Q_{1},{\ldots \mspace{14mu} Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}}$

to obtain

$Q_{0}^{\prime},Q_{1}^{\prime},{\ldots \mspace{14mu} Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}^{\prime}}$

according to a certain rule; the interleaving method (optional) isperforming interleaving on bits to be interleaved according to asequence

$\left\{ {x_{0},{x_{1}\ldots}\mspace{14mu},x_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}} \right\},$

is a positive integer sequence from 1 to

${\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1},$

or, the interleaving method is a interleaving method according torow-wise write and column-wise reades; for example, when the number ofmodulation symbols to be interleaved is 24, the sequence is {1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23,24}, or {1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12,14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24}, bits to be interleaved are rearranged accordingto the above order, and the interleaving is completed. Or, theinterleaving method is block interleaving, with regard to the encodingscheme 1, each group corresponds to 12 modulation symbols, and one groupis divided into 2 blocks in order, and each block contains 6 modulationsymbols, interleaved concatenating is performed on all blocks, and themodulation symbol sequence is Q₀, Q₁, . . . Q₂₃ before the interleaving,and the modulation symbol sequence is Q₀, . . . , Q₅, Q₁₂, . . . , Q₁₅,Q₆, . . . , Q₁₁, Q₁₆, . . . , Q₂₃ after the interleaving;

wherein time domain extension means extending the encoded sequence tothe occupied symbols by using an orthogonal sequence, and the orthogonalsequence can be a DFT sequence;

wherein the DFT means performing DFT operation on the modulated sequenceon the symbol;

or,

as shown in FIG. 8 c, encoding, scrambling, modulation and concatenatingare respectively performed on the feedback information, on which groupdivision has been performed, in groups, and then Discrete FourierTransform (DFT) is performed on data which go through the aboveprocessing;

wherein the scrambling process is that modulo-2 is performed afteradding a scrambling sequence c₀, c₁, . . . , c_(B-1) and the encodedsequence b₀, b₁, . . . , b_(B-1), and obtaining a scrambled sequence q₀,q₁, . . . , q_(B-1), namely q_(i)=mod((c_(i)+b′_(i)), 2)(i=0, 1, . . .B−1), and the scrambling sequence is composed of pseudorandom sequences;

wherein the modulation mode is the QPSK, (Q_(m)=2), and a modulatedsequence is

$Q_{0},Q_{1},{{\ldots \; Q_{\frac{B}{Q_{m}} - 1}};}$

wherein, with regard to the encoding scheme 1, each group corresponds to12 modulation symbols, and each group of modulation symbol sequences isQ₀ ⁰, Q₁ ⁰, . . . , Q₁₁ ⁰, Q₀ ¹, Q₁ ¹, . . . , Q₁₁ ¹, two groups ofmodulated symbols are interleaved, and the modulation symbols are Q₀, .. . , Q₅, Q₁₂, . . . , Q₁₅, Q₆, . . . , Q₁₁, Q₁₆, . . . , Q₂₃ after theconcatenating;

wherein time domain extension means extending the encoded sequence tothe occupied symbols by using an orthogonal sequence, and the orthogonalsequence can be a DFT sequence;

wherein the DFT means performing DFT operation on the modulated sequenceon the symbol;

the feedback information transmitted by the channel can be one ormultiple kinds of ACK/NACK information, channel state information, rankindication information and scheduling request information; according tocells configured by a UE and corresponding transmission modes, theamount of the feedback information is determined; and the channelresources are configured to a target UE through upper layer signalings.

The channel in the example can be applied when the amount of ACK/NACKfeedback information in TDD is greater than 11 in the carrieraggregation or when a UE performs feedback of channel state informationof r downlink cells.

The ordinary person skilled in the art can understand that all or partof the steps in the above method can be completed by a programinstructing related hardware, and the program can be stored in acomputer readable memory medium, such as a read-only memory, disk oroptical disk and so on. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of theabove examples also can be implemented by using one or multipleintegrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the aboveexamples can be implemented in a form of hardware, and also can beimplemented in a form of software function module. The present inventionis not limited to any combination of hardware and software in a specificform.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

In the present invention, the number of bits of feedback information ofUE is increased, which enhances the uplink feedback capacity, guaranteesthe maximum throughput of the system, and decreases the feedback delayof downlink channel information.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for transmitting feedback information,the method comprising: a User Equipment (UE) performing time domainextension for feedback information within one subframe; and mapping datawhich go through the time domain extension and demodulation referencesignals corresponding to the data which go through the time domainextension respectively to multiple uplink Single Carrier-FrequencyDivision Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within the subframe, andtransmitting the data which go through the time domain extension and thedemodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which gothrough the time domain extension in a same frequency domain position ina way of time division multiplexing; wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symboloccupies n successive physical resource blocks in a frequency domain,and n is a positive integer.
 2. The method according to claim 1,wherein: the step of performing time domain extension for feedbackinformation comprises: performing encoding, scrambling and/orinterleaving, and modulation for the feedback information, and thenperforming Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) on data which go through theencoding, scrambling and/or interleaving and modulation, wherein, aprocessing order of the scrambling, interleaving and modulation isarbitrary.
 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein: the step ofperforming encoding for feedback information comprises: firstly dividingO bits of feedback information into Y groups, and then encoding eachgroup of data respectively, an encoding way being RM (32, O) encoding orconvolutional encoding; wherein, if the length of the ith group of datais Z_(i) after the encoding,${{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}} = {{n \times L \times Q \times 2\mspace{14mu} {or}\mspace{14mu} {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}}} = {n \times L \times Q}}},$wherein, Q represents the number of bits corresponding to one modulationsymbol, L is the number of subcarriers contained in one physicalresource block, and Y is a positive integer.
 4. The method according toclaim 1, wherein, the step of performing time domain extension forfeedback information within one subframe comprises: the UE concatenatingall groups of encoded feedback information in order, or interleaving allgroups of encoded feedback information, or interleaving all groups ofencoded feedback information by block; or after respectively performingscrambling and modulation operation on each group of encoded feedbackinformation, the UE concatenating all groups of symbols obtained aftermodulation, wherein, a concatenating way is orderly concatenating orinterleaving.
 5. The method according to claim 3, wherein: the step ofdividing O bits of feedback information into Y groups comprises:starting from a first bit in a sequence composed of feedbackinformation, performing division into Y groups in order, except the lastgroup, $\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$ bits contained in eachgroup, and the number of bits contained in the last group being equal toor greater than $\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$ bits; orperforming modulo operation between a location in which each bit islocated in the sequence composed of the feedback information and the Y,and classifying bits with identical modulo values under a group; or,when the feedback information is channel state information, classifyingbits representing feedback information corresponding to each cell undera group correspondingly; or, starting from the first bit in the sequencecomposed of the feedback information, performing division into Y groupsin order, wherein the number of bits contained in each group of O mod Ygroups is ${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor + 1},$ and the numberof bits contained in each group of remaining Y−(O mod Y) groups is$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor.$
 6. The method according toclaim 2, wherein: an interleaving way is to perform interleaving on datato be interleaved according to a fixed sequence, or to performinterleaving on the data to be interleaved according to a row-wise writeand column-wise read matrix way, or to perform interleaving according toa block interleaving method.
 7. The method according to claim 2,wherein: the step of performing DFT on data which go through theencoding, scrambling and/or interleaving and modulation comprises:performing DFT processing on all data in a time domain, or performingDFT processing on data borne by each physical resource block in the timedomain respectively.
 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein: asequence of the demodulation reference signals is composed of a sequencewith the length of n×L; or a sequence of the demodulation referencesignals is composed of n sequences with lengths of L, wherein L is thenumber of subcarriers contained in one physical resource block; or whena total bandwidth is N and physical resource block indexes are numberedfrom 0, if a physical resource block index occupied by an uplink SC-FDMAsymbol within a first timeslot in the subframe is m, a physical resourceblock index occupied by an uplink SC-FDMA symbol with a second timeslotin the subframe is N−1−m or m; or when h uplink SC-FDMA symbols arecontained in one timeslot, the step of mapping data which go through thetime domain extension and demodulation reference signals correspondingto the data which go through the time domain extension to multipleuplink SC-FDMA symbols within the subframe comprises: mapping the datawhich go through the time domain extension respectively to f uplinkSC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in the subframe, and mapping thedemodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which gothrough the time domain extension respectively to another g uplinkSC-FDMA symbols within each timeslot in the subframe; or, mapping a partof the data which go through the time domain extension to f uplinkSC-FDMA symbols within a first timeslot in the subframe, mapping anotherpart of the data to f uplink SC-FDMA symbols within a second timeslot inthe subframe, and mapping the demodulation reference signalscorresponding to all parts of mapped data correspondingly to another guplink SC-FDMA symbols within corresponding timeslots in the subframe;wherein, h=f+g, and f is a time domain extended sequence length; or thefeedback information comprises any one or any combination ofACKnowledgement or Non-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) information, channelstate information, rank indication information and scheduling requestinformation.
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 17. A userequipment, the user equipment comprising: a time domain extension moduleand a data transmission module; wherein the time domain extension moduleis configured to: perform time domain extension on feedback informationwithin one subframe; the data transmission module is configured to: mapextended data obtained by the time domain extension module anddemodulation reference signals corresponding to the extended datarespectively to multiple uplink Single Carrier-frequency DivisionMultiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within the subframe, and transmit theextended data and the demodulation reference signals corresponding tothe extended data in a same frequency domain position in a way of timedivision multiplexing; wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies nsuccessive physical resource blocks in a frequency domain, and n is apositive integer.
 18. The user equipment according to claim 17, wherein:the time domain extension module is configured to perform time domainextension on the feedback information within one subframe in a followingway: performing encoding, scrambling and/or interleaving, and modulationfor the feedback information, and performing Discrete Fourier Transform(DFT) on data which go through the above processing, wherein, aprocessing order of the scrambling, interleaving and modulation isarbitrary.
 19. A user equipment, the user equipment comprising: a groupdivision module and a transmission module; wherein the group divisionmodule is configured to: divide feedback information into n groups; thetransmission module is configured to: transmit each group of datacorrespondingly through one Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) ofwhich a format is PUCCH Format 2 or PUCCH Format 3; wherein, n is 2, andPUCCHs bearing the data occupy a same physical resource block oradjacent physical resource blocks in a frequency domain.
 20. The userequipment according to claim 19, wherein: the group division module isconfigured to divide the feedback information into n groups in afollowing way: starting from a first bit in a sequence composed of Obits of feedback information, performing division into n groups inorder, except the last group, $\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$bits contained in each group, and umber of bits contained in the lastgroup being equal to or greater than$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor$ bits; or performing modulooperation between a location in which each bit is located in a sequencecomposed of the feedback information and the n, and classifying bitswith identical modulo values under a group; or, when feedbackinformation is channel state information, classifying bits representingfeedback information corresponding to each cell under a groupcorrespondingly; or, starting from the first bit in the sequencecomposed of the feedback information, performing division into n groupsin order, wherein the number of bits contained in each group of O mod ngroups is ${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor + 1},$ and the numberof bits contained in each group of remaining n−(O mod n) groups is$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{n} \right\rfloor.$
 21. The user equipmentaccording to claim 18, wherein: the time domain extension module isconfigured to firstly divide O bits of feedback information into Ygroups, and then encode each group of data respectively, wherein anencoding way is RM (32, O) encoding or convolutional encoding; wherein,if the length of the ith group of data is Z_(i) after the encoding,${{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}} = {{n \times L \times Q \times 2\mspace{14mu} {or}\mspace{14mu} {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{Y - 1}Z_{i}}} = {n \times L \times Q}}},$wherein, Q represents the number of bits corresponding to one modulationsymbol, L is the number of subcarriers contained in one physicalresource block, and Y is a positive integer.
 22. The user equipmentaccording to claim 17, wherein, the time domain extension module isconfigured to concatenate all groups of encoded feedback information inorder, or interleave all groups of encoded feedback information, orinterleave all groups of encoded feedback information by block; or afterrespectively performing scrambling and modulation operation on eachgroup of encoded feedback information, concatenate all groups of symbolsobtained after modulation, wherein, a concatenating way is orderlyconcatenating or interleaving.
 23. The user equipment according to claim21, wherein: the time domain extension module is configured to performdivision into Y groups in order by starting from a first bit in asequence composed of feedback information, except the last group,$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$ bits contained in each group,wherein the number of bits contained in the last group is equal to orgreater than $\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor$ bits; or performmodulo operation between a location in which each bit is located in thesequence composed of the feedback information and the Y, and classifybits with identical modulo values under a group; or, when the feedbackinformation is channel state information, classify bits representingfeedback information corresponding to each cell under a groupcorrespondingly; or perform division into Y groups in order by startingfrom the first bit in the sequence composed of the feedback information,wherein the number of bits contained in each group of O mod Y groups is${\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor + 1},$ and the number of bitscontained in each group of remaining Y−(O mod Y) groups is$\left\lfloor \frac{O}{Y} \right\rfloor.$
 24. The user equipmentaccording to claim 18, wherein: an interleaving way is to performinterleaving on data to be interleaved according to a fixed sequence, orto perform interleaving on the data to be interleaved according to arow-wise write and column-wise read matrix way, or to performinterleaving according to a block interleaving method.
 25. The userequipment according to claim 17, wherein: the feedback informationcomprises any one or any combination of ACKnowledgement orNon-ACKnowledgement (ACK/NACK) information, channel state information,rank indication information and scheduling request information.